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UPS Strives to Deliver Message
To Public Sensitive to Teamsters

By

Douglas A. Blackmon and

Martha Brannigan Staff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Aug. 14, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

At a UPS office in Washington last Saturday afternoon, the company's chairman and chief executive officer, James P. Kelly, huddled with half a dozen top aides and executives for a 90-minute strategy session.

They weren't planning new offers to the Teamsters union. Instead, the executives were coaching Mr. Kelly for the next morning's "Face the Nation" program on the CBS television network. Until his promotion as United Parcel Service of America Inc.'s top manager at the beginning of this year, Mr. Kelly had had...